Hey people! Time to bid farewell to an awesome year in 2009 and HELLOOO to 2010! It has been an eventful (literally!) year for MYC! and we're looking forward to more exciting things to come in 2010. Sooo...

From all of us here at MYC!, we wish you all the best in the year to come. Party on hard tonight, welcome the new year in style! but always remember to be safe and be good. Happy New Year!

Catch MYC! News Jan 2010 issue soon!

Here’s a bit of history, the Lilith Fair is a concert tour and music festival founded by Sarah McLachlan, along with Dan Fraser, Martin Diamond and Terry McBride – in celebration of women! The concerts took place during the summer of 1997 to 1999, and now it’s making a comeback in 2010! It has a record of over 1.5 million fans in attendance and raised over $10 million dollars for women’s charities in North America.

It has just been revealed that Mary J. Blige, Sheryl Crow, Erykah Badu, Colbie Caillat, Ke$ha, Tegan and Sara, Miranda Lambert and Metric are among those set to join the 2010 tour. Even our own local songtress, Zee Avi is going to be a part of this!

Interested to know more? Head to www.lilithfair.com

The Touch ‘n Go Battle of the Bands ‘09 has come to an end! It was an eardrum popping journey as we started with recruitment of bands in nearby colleges, music schools, website, then the auditions, and then Carnival and the Grand Finale at Sunway Pyramid, Orange Entrance Piazza, on 12 Dec ‘09!

The grand finale started at 7.30pm with an opening gambit by KL Stompers and Beat Boyz. Other invited guest performers include Ask Me Again, Ash Nair, Car Crash Hearts, Dragon Red, Deja Voodoo Dolls, Bus Company and OAG. Judges for the day includes Hannah Tan, Jason Ko, Alda Tan, Mesh Nair and Azmi Jafar.

Finally at 12am, The Great Metropolitan Expressway (TGME) was crowned grand champion! TGME was campaigning for PAWS. Revuforte was 1^st runner up and Once Upon A Time There Was A Sausage Named Bob was 2^nd runner up. Congratulations to all the bands for making it a phenomenal show!

Videos on www.lifeinthefastlane.com.my & www.youtube.com/tngbattleofthebands

It went on for 6 months, with roadshows in various colleges, universities, and months of intense blogging. Then it all ended with a French-themed Grand Finale at Rootz on 10 Dec ‘09! The Sunsilk Blog 2 Paris competition, where Sunsilk gave 4 girls an internship trip to Paris!

There were over 600 blogs in the competition, and only 8 top blogs were chosen by votes! Bloggers were given 5 minutes to convince the judges on how much they want to win it. Then it was all left on their creativity to impress the judges that night.

After a showcase of skits, video, and multimedia presentations by the blog teams, Shinygirls4 emerged as Grand Champions! In 1^st place was Hoshi, 2^nd place was Little Gee and 3^rd place went to Dramatic Dos. View all the blogs at www.myc.com.my/sunsilk

This Saturday 12 Dec 2009, the place to be is at Sunway Pyramid, Orange Entrance Piazza for the Touch ‘n Go Battle of the Bands 2009 Grand Finale. The event starts with a carnival at 3pm, where there’ll be food, fun and performances. By evening, the Top 6 Bands will sing their hearts out for their respective charities. Hannah Tan, OAG, Ash Nair, Liang, Deja Voodoo Spells, Dragon Red are some of the bigger acts that are gonna be there!

Show some support by voting for your favourite bands at www.lifeinthefastlane.com.my .Which band will emerge the grand champions?! Be there to find out!

They are the Ribena’s Sparkling MAD (Making A Difference) Seniors who were announced in a press launch recently. The Ribena Sparkling MAD was an interuniversity contest looking for class seniors of 2009 who want to make a difference in our world.

 The “Top 12 Seniors” were named and Muhamad Azhar Bin Zainal is Ribena Most Sparkling MAD Senior 2009 and Lee Voon Hee is Most Popular Senior. The Ribena Top Winning College is SEGi Universiti College, Kota Damansara.

 All the “Top Seniors” were given cash prizes, hamper and stand to appear in Ribena’s 2010 calendar!

If you have then we’ve got some goodies for you and it comes in the form of Hannah Tan! Well, ok so we’re not giving away Hannah Tan but you’ll get to see her live in concert! That’s just as good eh. The I’ll Be Home For Christmas Charity Concert is on 20 Dec 2009 and it will feature loads of other celebrities! Head on to www.hannahtan.com for more information!

Now that we've got your interest, MYC! has got 100 tickets to give away! All you’ve got to do is tell us why you deserve to get tickets and 50 people will receive double passes to the concert. Just email your answers to christine@myc.com.my

Auditions for the Battle of the Bands 2009 have just concluded and, woaahhh it was fantastic! The bands that turned up for the auditions really floored those who were present to hear them.

It was tough but decisions had to be made. The Top 6 Bands were chosen and they are, Aerowave, Reaxi, The Great Metropolitan Expressway (TGME), The Orange, Once Upon A Time There Was A Sausage Named Bob, and Revuforte! They will be at the Grand Finals at Sunway Pyramid Orange Entrance Piazza on 12 Dec 2009. Watch videos of the performances at the auditions on http://www.lifeinthefastlane.com.my